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August 2018

The visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Azerbaijan and the region as a whole confirms Europe’s interest in building partnership relations with the countries of the South Caucasus, European expert on economy issues Igor Tsaranich told .

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev urged an Aug. 24 summit of the heads of the founding states of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) in Turkmenbashi city, Turkmenistan to reorganise the IFAS to better protect the environmentally-damaged water body.

There should be no drastic and tragic changes in relations between Turkey and the United States. Of course, for Washington Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a “complex partner”, a so-called “Sultan,” who tries to pursue an independent foreign policy.

For the last few years, joint efforts between Kazakhstan and international organisations to revive the sea, or at least mitigate the disastrous effects of Soviet-initiated irrigation mega-projects, have been making the impossible possible.

Over the five years of its implementation, the One-Belt-One-Road initiative has become a new clasp between China and the Central Asian region, providing the parties with a wide range of new opportunities for deepening mutually beneficial cooperation and achieving universal development and prosperity.

Deputy foreign ministers of the Caspian Sea states are planning to hold consultations in Azerbaijan in fall of this year in order to discuss the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov told.

The reform and modernisation of Ukraine’s energy market is vital to the future of Ukraine, but can also play a very important role in the energy security and economic development of the region, and the wider European continent, writes Maxim Timchenko.